Never Forget The Important Role Coaching Plays In Young Men’s Lives by Hank Schrader Former Defensive Coordinator, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Wash.

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© February, 2007
Never Forget The Important Role Coaching Plays In Young Men’s Lives

by Hank Schrader
Former Defensive Coordinator, Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Wash.

DURING MY FIRST year as a head coach of the St. John’s Military Academy Lancers, I took over a team that was 0-9 from the previous year. We struggled, but we won one game. I was discouraged but determined to fix the problems — but there were so many that I wasn’t sure I could solve them all.

For Christmas that year, my wife, Anne, gave me a small poem she framed and wrote out in a beautiful calligraphy style that put it all in perspective. The poem is entitled “The Locker Room” and ...The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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